Galilei number

Galileo number ( Ga) is a named after Galileo Galilei ( 1564-1642 ) dimensionless parameter in the field of fluid dynamics.

She finds, inter alia, Application in describing influenced by gravity liquid film flow over wetting walls, as in packed columns (see thin film physics, process technology) occur.

• : Acceleration due to gravity, ( in SI units: m/s2)
• : Characteristic length ( in SI units: m )
• : Characteristic, kinematic viscosity (in SI units m2 / s)

Swell

• VDI ( ed.): VDI Heat Atlas. 5, enlarged edition VDI Verlag, Dusseldorf 1988, Bc 1, ISBN 3-18-400850-9.
• Walter Wagner: Heat transfer. Basics. 5, revised edition Publisher bird reference book, Würzburg 1998, page 119, ISBN 3-8023-1703-3.